Recaps

Blade defeated Deacon Frost by injecting him with every dose of the high-concentration First Embrace Serum, while Green Arrow Duck prepared to destroy the Evernight Temple. Blade and Dr. Karen Jensen escaped before Green Arrow Duck’s explosives collapsed the underground complex into a sinkhole.

• Blade retrieved the High-Concentration First Embrace Serum from the wall and injected every vial into Deacon Frost, whose body burst when the serum overwhelmed his regeneration.
• Green Arrow Duck emerged from hiding, told Blade he had come as reinforcements from Whistler through Black Super, and warned that he planned to blow up the Evernight Temple.
• Blade left the underground temple and reunited with Dr. Karen Jensen, while Green Arrow Duck planted explosives throughout the complex.
• Blade told Green Arrow Duck that he had avenged Whistler and asked about his safety; Green Arrow Duck said Whistler was recovering in a secret location.
• Green Arrow Duck warned Blade and Dr. Karen Jensen to leave before the explosives detonated, and Blade declined to investigate his identity.
• Twelve minutes later, the explosives collapsed the ground above the Evernight Temple into a massive sinkhole.

After Deacon Frost’s defeat, radical Vampires disappeared from Los Angeles, easing life for residents and Hollywood workers. Henry used the lull to test his compact tracking missiles and gather combat data, until another call for help interrupted him.

• Blade thwarted Deacon Frost’s bid to become the Blood God, leaving the radical Vampires weakened and vulnerable to the Twelve Clans.
• The radical Vampires vanished from Los Angeles, making the streets safer and clearing obstacles from J.J. Harris’s work in Hollywood.
• Henry focused on testing the Duck Leopard armor and compact Variable-Directional Tracking Combat Missiles, which relied on external tracking and had a short range.
• Henry used Kitty as a mock target and later deployed the missiles against Vampires to collect combat data.
• A phone call for help interrupted Henry’s research.

Henry learned that Sentry had become the Void and was devastating Manhattan, so he set out to rescue Katharine Hepburn and her caregiver, Maria Thomson. He flew from Los Angeles to New York while carrying his Cadillac, planning to take them to Katharine’s seaside villa in Connecticut.

• Maria Thomson called Henry and explained that Katharine Hepburn’s health and care situation had left them at Katharine’s East 49th Street home.
• Henry watched news footage showing Sentry spreading the Void’s destructive shadows through Manhattan.
• Henry told Maria to pack Katharine’s medication and wait for him so he could take them to the Connecticut villa.
• Henry decided not to rely on the X-Men or Nick Fury to stop the threat and chose to get Katharine and Maria out himself.
• Henry lifted his Cadillac and flew from Los Angeles toward New York with the car held above him.

Henry reached Katharine Hepburn’s apartment in New York and persuaded the stubborn ninety-one-year-old to leave as The Void rampaged nearby. He carried her out and headed for the car with her private nurse following.

• Henry drove through New York’s clogged streets and reached Katharine Hepburn’s building.
• Henry found Katharine sitting by the window while her nurse, Maria Thomson, waited for him.
• Henry coaxed Katharine into leaving by promising wine and a visit to her home in Fenwick.
• Henry carried Katharine downstairs and signaled for Maria Thomson to follow.

Henry evacuated Katharine Hepburn from New York as Sentry battled the U.S. military, and he drove her toward her family’s home in Fenwick, Connecticut. He wondered what had caused Sentry to lose control and who could stop him.

• Henry helped Katharine Hepburn into his car and drove her through chaotic New York traffic with Maria Thomson.
• Katharine recognized that Henry had missed her and requested Beef Wellington for dinner.
• Henry asked Maria Thomson to notify the Fenwick house before they arrived.
• Sentry fought U.S. military helicopters and destroyed several of them while Henry and Katharine escaped the city.
• Henry wondered whether Sentry was under The Void’s control and which heroes could intervene.

Henry escaped New York with Katharine Hepburn and Maria Thomson, then discussed Titanic’s success and his investment in it. He explained why he had not pushed Charlize to pursue the female lead, and Katharine warned that Leonardo and Kate would struggle to be recognized for their work beyond James Cameron’s film.

• Henry used Super Senses and risky driving to guide his car out of New York, then relaxed and chatted with Katharine Hepburn.
• Henry told Katharine that Stark Studios invested sixty-five million dollars in Titanic, including ten million of his own money.
• Katharine questioned whether cultural differences explained Titanic’s success, and Henry said its romance, characters, historical disaster, and large-scale production all drew audiences.
• Katharine asked why Henry had not helped Charlize pursue the female lead, and Henry said he thought she might regret making the film and that James Cameron would not compromise easily.
• Maria Thomson asked why Katharine would regret making Titanic, and Katharine said audiences would remember it as James Cameron’s film rather than hers and that Leonardo and Kate faced a difficult road.

Henry joined Catherine's family for a lavish dinner at the Hepburn seaside villa, where the conversation turned to a superhero's violent actions and Henry's work on Titanic. Quicksilver arrived with an auburn-haired woman, leaving Henry wary that they had come on Raven's behalf.

• Henry prepared Beef Wellington and paired it with wine from the Hepburn Family's cellar for Catherine's elderly relatives.
• The family discussed the sudden violence of a supposed superhero and debated Katharine Hepburn's chances of appearing on the American Film Institute's upcoming list of the greatest movie stars.
• A relative asked Henry about Titanic's Oscar win and his company's investment, and Henry said Stark Studios had handled the film's computer visual effects.
• Henry answered a rapid knock at the villa's door, found Pietro Django Maximoff and an auburn-haired woman outside, and joked about Quicksilver's woodpecker-like knocking.
• Henry worried that Quicksilver had returned to the X-Men and come to deliver a message from Raven.

Wanda Maximoff came to Henry Brown on the Sorcerer Supreme’s orders to warn him about the Void and ask him to help stop it. She explained that the X-Men and magical community were preparing to fight, but lacked someone who could restrain the Void at close range.

• Quicksilver introduced his younger sister, Wanda Maximoff, to Henry, and she nearly struck him with a magic arrow after her brother teased her.
• Wanda pulled Henry into the courtyard and explained that she had avoided meeting him because the Sorcerer Supreme had ordered the magical world to stay away.
• Wanda told Henry that the Sorcerer Supreme had sent her to ask whether he could protect the people he cared about if the Void lost control.
• Henry asked why the X-Men could not handle the Void, and Wanda said Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force was incomplete and the X-Men had already failed once.
• Wanda said the X-Men and magical community were preparing to fight the Void, but needed Henry to restrain it at close range.

Wanda tried to recruit Henry to fight The Void by warning him that New York had already lost at least a hundred thousand lives and that the threat was spreading. Henry questioned why the Sorcerer Supreme and other powerful figures could not handle it, then learned Ancient One had limits and argued that the U.S. military should face the consequences of its confidence.

• Henry resisted Wanda's attempt to persuade him to help, and Wanda invoked Abraham's plea to save Sodom to ask whether he would protect the world for the people he cared about.
• Wanda told Henry that Professor X had detected at least a hundred thousand vanished thoughts in New York and warned that fleeing would not solve the spreading crisis.
• Henry questioned why the Sorcerer Supreme had not defeated The Void, and Wanda explained that Ancient One was powerful but could be vulnerable to overwhelming brute force.
• Henry suggested asking Magneto and the Mutants on Genosha Island for help, but Wanda explained that bringing them to the East Coast would take at least a day.
• Wanda said The Void's death toll was still growing and the U.S. military planned an offensive without evacuating New York, while Henry argued that the military needed to learn its limits.

Henry agreed to leave with Wanda and Pietro to confront The Void, deciding that acting sooner would reduce the damage and resentment. Wanda revealed that the Sorcerer Supreme wanted Superman rather than Henry Brown, and Henry reluctantly put on the Superman suit before setting out.

• Henry concluded that he should act against The Void before its threat spread and caused greater losses.
• Henry told Katharine Hepburn he had to leave, and she wished him luck before he said goodbye to the others.
• Wanda told Henry that the Sorcerer Supreme needed Superman, then used Chaos Magic to produce a red-and-blue suit with an S emblem.
• Pietro gave Henry hair gel and urged him to hurry while Wanda watched him change.
• Henry changed into the Superman suit, slicked back his hair, and returned to Wanda and Pietro.

Henry Brown disguised himself as Superman and confronted The Void above Manhattan, where their first exchanges of blows revealed how difficult it would be to land a decisive strike. The Void exposed Superman’s face and taunted him about Robert Reynolds, while the watching U.S. military noticed the new challenger.

• Henry Brown altered his appearance, forged a silver mask, and flew toward New York as Quicksilver and Wanda decided to join the fight.
• Superman confronted The Void above Manhattan and sent him flying with a sequence of kicks, but neither fighter landed a decisive blow.
• The Void read Superman’s thoughts and taunted him about trying to awaken Robert Reynolds and about wearing the Superman costume.
• The Void ripped off Superman’s mask and crushed it into a small sphere.
• The U.S. military watching from afar noticed Superman standing before Sentry and were left bewildered.

Superman continued fighting The Void while limiting his attacks to protect New York’s remaining residents. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch arrived to help, and Superman and Quicksilver attacked The Void together as they awaited further reinforcements.

• Superman endured The Void’s repeated attacks rather than risk sending him crashing into occupied buildings.
• Quicksilver brought Scarlet Witch to the battlefield, and Superman asked how Quicksilver’s physics studies were going before accepting their help.
• Superman warned Quicksilver about the black tendrils and split their approach, with each attacking The Void from one side.
• Quicksilver’s supersonic strikes gave Superman openings to land powerful punches, making him a consequential variable in the fight.
• The Void struggled to dismiss Superman’s growing strength and sensed a familiar, deadly presence in Scarlet Witch.

Superman and Quicksilver adapted to The Void’s aerial advantage, and the Scarlet Witch trapped him with magic. Cyclops broke the prison with an Optic Blast, leaving The Void charging the X-Men as Jean Grey stood in his way.

• Superman explained how Quicksilver could use compressed air as footholds, and Quicksilver learned to run diagonally through the sky.
• Quicksilver struck The Void in midair, and Superman slammed him into the ground while the Scarlet Witch imprisoned him in a magical sphere.
• Cyclops’s Optic Blast broke the magical barrier, freeing The Void.
• The Void charged the X-Men, while Professor X linked everyone’s thoughts and Storm prepared an attack.
• Jean Grey, who possessed the Phoenix Force, stood in The Void’s path.

The X-Men and mages joined Superman and Quicksilver against The Void, but their attacks struggled to affect him as Superman’s strength and resolve grew. The Void tried to attack Professor X, only for Phoenix to switch places with him and confront The Void directly.

• Professor X stopped trying to enter the mages’ minds after they resisted his psychic contact.
• Cyclops shattered the mages’ shell around The Void, and Jean Grey separated from him after keeping him contained with the Phoenix Force.
• The Void caught Quicksilver’s fist, but Phoenix forced him to release the speedster while Superman repeatedly attacked him.
• Storm unleashed lightning, while Cyclops and the mages struggled to contribute as Superman and The Void fought through buildings.
• Professor X guided Robert Reynolds’s consciousness as his voice grew louder within The Void, who took a blow and then broke free to attack Professor X.
• Phoenix switched places with Professor X and faced The Void directly.

Superman, Quicksilver, and Jean Grey fought The Void, whose increasingly unreal form made ordinary attacks ineffective. Superman drove The Void into one of Scarlet Witch’s magical traps and signaled Quicksilver to stop Cyclops from firing at them.

• Jean Grey held The Void in the air while Superman and Quicksilver attacked him with molecular oscillation strikes.
• The Void erupted with black tendrils, blasted the attackers away, and destroyed the top floors of a building after Storm had evacuated the other X-Men.
• The Void’s movements became perceptual and unreal, leaving Superman and Quicksilver unable to land meaningful physical blows while he avoided Scarlet Witch’s magical traps.
• Superman urged Scarlet Witch to use her magic, then rammed The Void into one of her traps and shouted for her to act.
• Quicksilver spotted Cyclops preparing to blast Superman and The Void together and hurried to stop him.

Superman and The Void were trapped together in the Scarlet Witch’s magical formation, where her Chaos Magic hurt them but could not finish The Void. They were then transported into a recreation of Superman’s childhood prison, where a frail boy watched television and The Void questioned whether Superman could escape.

• Quicksilver decided the mages were the only ones worth relying on, and the Scarlet Witch trapped The Void and Superman in a reinforced magical barrier.
• Superman held The Void in place as the Scarlet Witch turned the trap into a killing formation and bombarded them with Chaos Magic.
• The magic injured Superman and struck The Void, but neither was killed by the attacks.
• Superman realized that Professor X needed to awaken Robert Reynolds, but the mages did not know that and continued attacking.
• Superman and The Void suddenly appeared in a recreation of Superman’s Siberian research-facility cell, where a frail boy watched television and The Void asked if it was a place Superman could not escape from.

Superman rejected the Void’s attempt to turn his pain into a justification for mass slaughter and broke free of its magical trap. The Void then seized Charlize Theron and tore her apart in front of him.

• The Void urged Superman to take revenge on his abusers by killing them and ultimately destroying humanity.
• Superman declared that he did not want to do what the Void wanted and punched it through the magical space.
• Superman returned to the real world as the collapsing spell released him and the Void, and his bleeding began to stop.
• The Void held Charlize Theron hostage and questioned whether she was real, while Superman hesitated.
• The Void grabbed Charlize Theron and tore her into three pieces before Superman.

After The Void killed Charlize Theron, Superman collapsed in grief before returning to the fight with a terrifying new intensity. As Kamar-Taj’s mages and Queen Frigga arrived, he struck The Void hard enough to send him crashing through buildings.

• Superman recognized Charlize Theron’s severed head as real, knelt beside her, and mourned her death.
• Ancient One led the Kamar-Taj mages onto the battlefield, where Tony Stark recognized Charlize and tried to approach Superman.
• Ancient One summoned Queen Frigga, who agreed to help power the Vishanti Array while the All-Father stayed behind.
• The Void taunted Superman about Charlize’s death, and Superman answered, “Why so serious?”
• Superman attacked The Void without restraint, punched his face out of shape, and sent him through three buildings.

Ancient One coordinated the sorcerers, Jean Grey, Wanda Maximoff, Frigga, and Tony Stark to protect Earth while Superman relentlessly hunted The Void through New York. Tony struggled to contain their battle in the Mirror Dimension, and The Void was left terrified as Superman regenerated and grew stronger from solar energy.

• Ancient One closed Earth’s magical barriers and ordered Mordo and Kaecilius to repair the ruptured spaces left by the battle.
• Ancient One brought Jean Grey and Wanda Maximoff to the battlefield, asking them to suppress Sentry’s matter manipulation and sending Wanda to lead the gathered witches and mages.
• Ancient One assigned Tony Stark to create a Mirror Dimension with the Book of the Vishanti, while he and Frigga supported Tony through the Vishanti Triangular Formation.
• Tony repeatedly formed Mirror Dimensions, but the fighters’ speed and destructive power kept breaking them before they could contain the battle.
• The Void severed Superman’s right arm, but Superman kept fighting and struck The Void with a fist formed from solar energy.
• Golden light shone from Superman’s wounds and restored him, leaving The Void shaken and unsure what he was facing.

With Earth’s magical protection gone, dimensional demons rushed toward it, but The Void and its pursuer battered each demon they encountered while Tony Stark diverted their fight away from Earth. Dormammu then arrived in New York, announcing that he had come to collect his debt from Ancient One.

• Dimensional demons approached Earth after Ancient One ended the protective magic, and Tony Stark sensed their arrival while maintaining the Mirror Dimension.
• Tony Stark banished The Void and its pursuer into the nearest approaching dimension, where they tore through the demon’s world and returned to Earth.
• The Void and its pursuer repeatedly devastated the worlds of dimensional demons, while Tony Stark redirected them into Mirror Dimensions to protect Earth’s reality.
• Dormammu arrived in New York as the Dark Dimension filled the night sky and declared that he had come to collect his debt from Ancient One.

The Void fled through the Dark Dimension and other realms while the red-and-blue-suited man pursued it, eventually being driven back into Earth’s reality. Robert Reynolds regained control of his body, but the approaching man did not know the Void had retreated.

• Tony Stark hurled the Void into the Dark Dimension, where Dormammu tried to trap it and the pursuer but ultimately cut off the battlefield and fled.
• The Void used a severed world fragment and Tony Stark’s Mirror Dimensions to try to cage its opponent, but the man destroyed them and returned to Earth’s reality.
• Chthon, Mephisto, and the other watching demon gods withdrew from Earth, while the Void fled through their sealed realms in search of an escape.
• The Void entered its opponent’s mind and crossed into a universe where Batman, seated in the Mobius Chair, told Superman to send it back.
• Superman punched the Void through the breach, where the pursuer struck it from the other side and forced it back to Earth.
• Robert Reynolds woke in Manhattan with worsening wounds, realized the Void had retreated, and warned the approaching man that he was not the Void.

Henry killed Sentry with a strange beam, then attacked Jean Grey with a power that clashed against the Phoenix Force and left her suffering. Blind and enraged, Henry turned on Cyclops after Cyclops attacked him, and Quicksilver pulled Cyclops out of his reach.

• Jean Grey tried to stop Henry from killing Sentry and shielded Robert Reynolds, but Henry's beam pierced her defenses and killed him.
• Furious at Sentry's death, Jean Grey unleashed the Phoenix Force, and Henry fired a second beam that clashed with it, ravaging her body.
• Quicksilver tried to rescue Jean Grey but could not reach her through the forces surrounding her.
• Cyclops attacked Henry with an Optic Blast, and Henry charged at him while Quicksilver whisked Cyclops away.
• Quicksilver tried to calm Henry, but Henry remained hostile.

Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, and the mages tried to restrain Henry while Cyclops attacked in grief and anger. Tony Stark learned that Ancient One had recruited him because she foresaw this crisis, but he refused to use holy magic to challenge death and questioned his place at Kamar-Taj.

• Quicksilver confined Henry and coordinated with Cyclops, Storm, and the mages to wear him down without causing direct damage.
• Professor X tried to calm Henry by linking their minds but was beaten unconscious, while Qin Grey remained in pain.
• Cyclops grew more aggressive toward Quicksilver as he continued to attack, and the Scarlet Witch worried that restraint would not resolve the crisis.
• Tony Stark asked Ancient One if she had kept magic from Henry so it could be used against him, and she confirmed that magic was their only way to deal with him.
• Ancient One stopped Tony from using the Book of the Vishanti and warned him that holy magic could not challenge death without costing him his life.
• Tony realized Ancient One had foreseen the crisis when she recruited him, then said he no longer found magic interesting.

Tony Stark used the Infinity Gauntlet to wish that everything would return to its proper course, erasing Sentry and restoring Manhattan and its dead. As the Ancient One passed responsibility to another version of himself, Death redirected one revived soul toward a fate from another universe.

• Tony Stark used the Eye of Agamotto to assemble a red-and-gold Infinity Gauntlet and chose to make a wish despite Ancient One's warning.
• Tony Stark snapped his fingers and wished for Sentry never to have existed and for everything to return to its proper course, sacrificing the Wisdom Gem.
• The wish restored Manhattan and its dead while erasing or altering the world's memories of Sentry and the battle.
• The white-bearded Ancient One resisted the wish's effects and entrusted matters to another Ancient One, who agreed to use a Forgetting Spell on Tony Stark's magic.
• Death traced the return of the souls to the Infinity Stones and redirected one revived soul toward the fate of someone from another universe.

Henry woke with two conflicting sets of memories, one in which he had lived with Charlize Theron and fought the Sentry, and another in which he had always been single. His damaged Kryptonian eyes seemed to support the battle memories, but the world around him showed no sign that Charlize had ever lived with him.

• Kitty woke Henry, who jolted up from a nightmare and found his memories of two different lives clashing in his mind.
• Henry realized his Kryptonian vision powers were crippled and his eyes were badly damaged, though he had no other injuries.
• Henry went upstairs to ask Charlize's roommate whether she had returned, but the woman said she had never heard of Charlize and lived with Millie.
• Henry searched his home and found that the acting equipment and all traces of the girl were gone, though other details from his memories remained.
• Kitty gnawed on Henry's calf to tell him she was hungry.